The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-10-05

Dashing;
Thunders booming in the distance.
I'LL the earth Seems IL resistance
To the nsVIes sailing higher,
Oer the wilG clouds dropping ire;
And there he comes the winsd horss comes
Beneath great Jove whose mighty arn!s
EUrl thunder bolts and heaven drums
Her awful roll OF sad alarms:
he stamps the clouds, and onward prances'
As from HIN the wild lightning glances;
By his neigh the world is shaken,
And his boot SO tcctly dances
That thel sEtnines ove-taken,
And he feeds upon It's blazing
Shafts, il he were but craZinC;
Stops paws the clouds beneath his forn'
Then callo:s DER the raSing storm
Flies on. his long. dishevcicd nare
Stree:I> wildly through the lcadcn plane
OF TIE dull skies.
The while the Grapery Of the clouds,
Wraps this spirit us II shrou1s,
Our dartirg eyes
In vague surprise
Arise,
And trace the wandering course
OF heavens teet-toot wineed horse.
Koll. thuodc-s. roll:
AS lightninSs in the arcblnS scrou
Streak the heavens in their Eight
BY their dazzling Row OF light;
While old Neptune, all sloae,
Is sitting on his mountain throne,
Ger the sea,
II mood SO lonely, he
ThrUsts his trident by his side,
With such force that the sreaosn,cunta!n
Opens deep cavern wide.
And bursts forth O living fauutaln
Sparkling with its silvcry tide;
And the Nereids. tittr strong.
To the waters babb!inc song,
Like fairy wan9s
From Neptune's hands
Sally from this cavern wiuc,
Sailing DER the gray cold rocks,
With their fairy rainbow LOCKS,
Down upon the water hr!rn,
Either way the sur ace skin
Till their capecd tngers rps
Gently in the water dips:
Then beneath tho raging skies
Neptune IL his chariot aieS
Ger the sea.
With his trident in lis hand.
In q bearias Of comm AID,
Fitting to his majesty,
He calls to his daughters
To quit the wild waters-
6e calls, but they hesd not his word:
Then lis trident he hurls
At his sea-nylpph girls.
But the truants-tLey fee from their lord.
Unto the clouds they 60
In the whi:lwinds Of the storm,
Arethusa leads the way
Whatsoe'er the winds may blow.
She lthely moves her graceful form
AS if she would herself s"rvey.
And then she rides the southern wind
And bids her sisters follow,
And leave old Neptune far behind,
LORD Of his mountain hollow
To nurse his wrath
And tread his path.
Ard curse his fairy daughters
These mount tain elves
That freed themselves
From the lord OF ocean g waters.
he grasped trident in his hand
That mystic rose at his command,
And wildly blew till the great ocean
Trembled like an aspeu-tre",
And winds that were in wild connotion,
WhirliLg through iuGensity,
He'd by his magic art control
and gather in secret scroll
Scr the hssrns hssi 2: hst hs poFta %asgrs eao
Till tee growing thunders roll,
Giving spleen to NeptCnes soul
AS ne sees them dart through air,
Daughters Fifty, all so fair,
Free from the 1onien Sea,
Designed to be
Their destiny.
Roll. thunders. roll!
TIL the many church-beils toll
Once in unity,
Touched by the enchanting wand
OF mis- majesty,
Who's arbiter of sea and land.
And marks each destiny
The fair-faced nymphs Of air,
Eetanorphosed from the Dorian sea,
Ger the waters,
Lovely daughters.
Through the misty clouds hey hee'
Their fairy forms
Float DER the storms
So swift and magicly
That on the wings OF the long STREAMING hashe
They ride and they dance their celght,
Wear crowns Of electrical dashes,
And bssk il their dazzling light
Where the deep voiced thunder peals louder,
And the long sheeted lighcnDSs play fast,
We see them peep through the dark cloud, or
Ride OF On q sulphUrous blast.
When the storm 20 its fUllress IS raging,
And all Nature ut war seems to be,
The cloud-sphere is then more engaging
To them than wild breakinS seq.
But now tho growing, rolling GrUmolios.
Thunders in the distance mumbling,
Fainter, fainter, dying, dying.
And the lightning DINNER flying.
Der the dark clio q westward lying,
As the morning in her glory
Bursts forth like an ancient story
TIE while the resting suub ans Light
On this dark cloud Of the night,
And the archiDg rain6ows given
To the spirit-fCrrns CT heaven,
In q moment unrollcG
In its pnions OF gold,
And quick Gs Ks birth
It o'crcifcles the earth:
And there the spirits 0! the storms
Sit ard rest their weary e. $.
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